A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. fr. In old English law. Causing damage or loss, as distinguished from torcenouse, wrongful.

dampnare, 2. In old English law. To condemn; to damage; to injure.

dampner, I. fr. To condemn. Dampner a la mort: to condemn to death. Vamni injuria) actio, I. In the civil law. An action for injurious damage.

I. I. In old English law. Damages, inclusive of costs of suit; damages, exclusive of costs. Damna in duplo: double damages.

I. In old English law. Condemned; unlawful Damnatus coitus: an unlawful connection, v. Qui ex damnato, etc.

I. In the civil law. A losing inheritance; an inheritance that was a charge instead of a benefit

dampiiosus, I. I. In old English law. That which produces loss, as distinguished from injuriosus, or that which works a wrong.

dampnnm, pi. damna, I Damage; loss. Damnum facientes: doing damage. Damnum abstjue injuria: a loss without a wrong; that kind of damage for which an action will not lie. v. Non omn

danegelt, danigeld. In old English law. The Danish tax or tribute; a tax upon land first imposed on the Saxons in the reign of Ethelred, for the purpose of bribing the Danes to des

v. Apparent danger. Dangers of navigation, or of the sea: the ordinary perils of navigation, as stress of weather, tempests and other extraordinary occurrences, v. Perils of the se

I. To give; to cause a thing to be effectually his who receives it. V. Do; Give; Nemo dat, etc.; Qui nan, etc.

darreine, darreyne, dareyne, darrain, darraigne, I. fr. Last. Darrein continuance: the last continuance, v. Continuance; Puis darrein continuance. Darrein presentment: the last pre

/. fr. and eng. Primarily, given or executed; hence from 4ts use as the initial and emphatic word of the clause by which the time and place of execution were expressed, the time wh

L In the civil law. A giving, or act of giving; appointment or assignment Datio in solutum: a giving in payment; a species of accord and satisfaction. Datio judicis: appointment of

In old English law. In one's gift; that may be given and disposed of at will and pleasure. In the civil law. That which is given by the magistrate, as distinguished from that which

I. I. Given; dated. Datum apnd London: given at London. Datur digniori: it is given to the more worthy.

A period of time consisting of twenty-four hours, beginning at midnight and extending to the next succeeding midnight, called the civil day; a period of time extending from sunrise

In the law of burglary, that portion of time before sunrise, and after sunset, which is accounted part of the day as distinguished from night v. Burglary; Night.

Stated days in term appointed for the appearance of parties, the return of process, etc., originally peculiar to the court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was anciently call

An arbitrator, or umpira

In the law of burglary, that portion of the twenty-four hours during which a man's countenance is discernible.

decinarius, I. I A deciner; a handborowe. v. Deciner; Frank-pledge.

In maritime law. A kind of freight payable by the charterer when the cargo in respect of which it is payable, or some part

In the Saxon against an enemy, until

or death's part. In English law. That portion of the effects of a deceased person which, by the custom of London and York, is allowed to the administrator.

A mortgage,

In Scots law. That portion of the property of a decedent which remained over the share of the widow, and the children's lawful portion, — so called because the decedent had full po

I. I. In old its advocacy; to disavow

In English lease from the forest

I. I. In old English bare flrraam: to whiten money in which rent to the fineness of standard uer, or make it equal to

In English ecclesiastical presides over the chapter bishop. \. Decaniis. Dean stituting the council of affairs of religion, and Dean of the arches: the

In Scots law. Deathbed deed: a deed he afterwards dies.

debase, I. fr. Below

I. In old English

A custom-house ported goods to a drawback instrument by which his assigns the sum found

I. He owes; he ought Debet esse flnls litinm: et detinet: he owes and nal writ, and now, in tion of debt, brought by personally gave the credit, the debt, or against his Debet et s

I. In a due or lawful manner. Debito modo: in due manner; duly; — electus: duly elected.

I. A debtor. Debitor Intelligatiir Is a quo invito exijji pccunia potest: a debtor may be understood to be one from whom money may be exacted against his will. Debitor non prsesumi

I. A thing due or owing; a debt. Debitum et contractus sunt nnllins loci: debt and contract are of [belong to] no place; have no particular locality. Debitum In prassenti, solvendu

I fr. To break; to break down, as a hedge; to break to pieces.

A sum of money due by certain and express agreement; an action to recover a certain sum of money, or a sum that can readily be reduced to a certainty. Debt by specialty: a debt due

A person to whom a debt is due; a creditor.

A person who owes a sum of money, or is indebted to another. Debtor in solido: v. In solido.

I. I. A deanery; a company of ten persons.

I. I. The office, jurisdiction, territory or command of a decarms, or dean. v. Deoanus.

I. In old English law. Dying; a person dying; a deceased person.

Deceased; a deceased person.

Z. In old English law. To die; to decease: Decessit: he died. In the civil law. To depart, that is, from life; to dia

A false representation or contrivance by which one person misleads another to his injuiy; an action in trespass on the case to recover damages therefor. In old English law. Any sub

I. In the Roman law. Ten persons who acted as the assistants of the praetor, when he decided on matters of law, or who were themselves judges.

1. 1. In old English law. A tithing or decennaiy; the precinct of a frank-pledge, consisting of ten freeholders with their families. V. Decennary; Tithing; Frank-pledge; Friborg. ^

A tithing, composed of ten neighboring families.

non decipientibus, jura snbveniunt, I. The laws assist the deceived, not those deceiving.

In Scots law. To decrea

I. In civil and old English law. To decree.; to decide.

I. I. In English law. Ten such, or ten tales; a writ to summon ten jurors to make up a deficiency in the panel.

I In old English law. Decease; death; departure, v. Departure. In the civil law. Decease; death.

I. It is becoming; it is proper. Decet tameu principem servare leges quibas ipse solutns est: yet it is becoming for the prince to observe the laws from which he himself is release

L In old English law. To decide; to put an end to; to fall, or fall to; to remain to; to escheat In the civil law. To decide; to determine judicially.

I. I. In old English law. Ten times as much; a writ given by the statute 38 Edw. Ill, cc. 12, 13; or by 34 Edw. III., c. 8, which lay against a juror who had taken money of either

/. ?., Dismes, i./r. In Englisih ecclesiastical the tenth part of the annual profit of livings, claimed of the clergy by the papal see, and of the royal revenue, v. Tithes.

desiner,desnier, dezyner.angiZ-norm. In of a decennary, or tithing; a hand-borow. v.

The result of deliberation; the judicial question. Decision, rules of: the laws of the federal courts, except where treaties or the statutes otherwise require.

In the civil law. A one of the parties, not being able to prove his the decision of the cause to the oath of his taken, v. Saeramentum decisionis.

I I In old English law. Proclamation.

A person who declares, who afl Srms a

A statement explicitly made; the plaintiff of his cause of action; the first pleading a count V. Dying declaration. Declaration by which an alien declares, before a court of to bec

In Scots law. An actioil by which thing to be declared in his favor.

Making certain what otherwise doubtful; explanatory; aflirmatory. Declaratory ute which, instead of introducing a new law, the existing law. In Scots law. Declaratory action: an ac

To announce or af Srm as a fact; to state nesses; to state a cause of action in accordance pleading.

In old English law. The plea benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction. law. Tithes; tenths; or benefices, formerly afterwards made a part old English law. One Decennary; Fribo

In Scots law. To object to. Declined: objected to.

L In the Roman law. A kind of provincial senator; a member of a council or senate established in all the great towns in the provinces, constituting a kind of municipal corporation.

I I. In Saxon law, A tithing or decennary.

I In the Roman law. The ofi Sce of a decurio.

I. In the Roman law. A bankrupt; a spendthrift; one who squandered the public money.

I. In old English and Scots law. The punishment of beheading; decollation. Deco Uat': beheaded.

A letter prepared and posted with a view to the detection of a criminal.

The judgment of a court of equity or admiralty, answering to the judgment of a court of common law. It is final where it disposes of the suit; interlocutory whex-e it disposes of s

In Scots law. The decree, judgment or sentence of a court Decreet absol Titor: a decree dismissing a claim, or acquitting a defendant Decreet arbitral: an award of arbitrators. Dec

I. In old English law. Decrease of the sea; the receding of the sea from the land. v. Reliction.

decretals, 1. 1. In ecclesiastical law. The second of the two great divisions of the Corpus Juris Canonici. Decretales (jlregorii Noni: decretals of Gregory the Ninth; a collection

I. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, being a judgment given by the emperor upon the hearing of a cause. In the canon law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistin

In the nature of a decree. Decretal order: an order-vyhich, in an event the result of a direction therein, may lead to the termination of the suit in the manner of a decree at the

dedeinz, dedeynz, dedinz, dedeiiz, dedans, dedaynes, 2. /r. Within; in. Dedeins la vierge: within the verga Dedens age: within aga

I. I have given; the operative and proper word of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and deeds of gift and grant Dedi, concessi, barganizavi et feoffavi: I have given, gr

The appropriation of private property, commonly land, to public uses, either by a formal act on the part of the owner, or by acts from which an appropriation may be legally presume

I I. To deny. Dedicta, dedictnm: denied.

We have gi'Ven; a commission to take testimony. Dedimug et concessimns: we have given and granted. In American law. Dedimns potestatem: we have given power; sometimes applied to a

I fr. To deny. Dedit, deditz: denied.

/. To have given. Dedisse et concessisse: to have given and granted, or [that I] have given and granted; operative words in. ancient charters of feoffment and deeds of grant, v. De

I L Hath given and granted; operative words in ancient charters of feoffment and deeds of grant, where the conveyance was by indenture.

2. An inferior kind of freedmen at one time recognized by the Roman law.

I In old English law. To bring; to deduct Dedticere ren» in judicium: to bring a thing into court; to make it the subject of judicial investigation. Deducto eere alieno: deducting

Lat. In civil, ecclesiastical, and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. Decanus episcopi: a bishop's or rural dean, presiding over ten clerks or parish

A fact or act; a writing sealed and and delivered more especially as a dented: a deed executed in parts, as arated by cutting in a curved or Deed poll: a deed executed in one havin

demster. A kind of judge in all controversies without process, writings ster.

1. 1, Defalcation. In old ment

1. 1. In old English law. Default default Defaltam sanare: to cure a

The speaking or writing of good fame. Written defamation is defamation slander, v. Libel; Slander.